After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGHHer heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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